Singapore — Lim Tean recently had a team of debt collectors arrive at his law firm demanding that he settle an amount of money.
In a Facebook video posted on the channel of SDCS Holdings Pte Ltd on Tuesday (Sept 21), a legal debt collection service, the entire process at Mr Lim’s office was filmed and live-streamed online.
En route to Lim Tean’s office, SDCS officers filmed themselves and their preparations as they made their way there. One of the collectors spoke in the live stream video explaining that though the sum owed is “not a big amount”, it is a matter of principle.
In the initial minutes of the video, the collector indicated that the person they were collecting the debt from was someone that viewers would recognise, but he refused to disclose the person’s name and the location he was at.
At the 4-minute mark of the video, four other collectors exited a white van and proceeded to the office. As the team went up in the elevator, they showed a set of documents while covering the personal details and explained that they were legal debt collectors and had “black and white” in the form of a court order.
According to one of the SDCS officers, Mr Lim had owed $4,905 to a company after engaging their services to post something on The Straits Times.
When the debt collectors showed up at Carson Law firm asking for Mr Lim, he appeared shaking his head and saying that he would settle it. As they hounded him, he refused and eventually returned to his office.
As the conversation soon got louder and more intense, others walking by reminded them to keep their voices down. A man dressed in a grey shirt came in asking the party not to create a ruckus. He identified himself as a former police officer and inspector and asked the debt collectors to sit in the conference room at Carson Law.
The debt collectors said that they just came to collect the sum of money and that Mr Lim no longer needed to settle the amount with the agency, and should do so with them instead. Insisting upon a cash cheque, the collectors also showed live-stream viewers a document as proof of the amount owed.
After live-streaming for about 18 minutes, the collectors received a cheque for the alleged amount owed and said they would be leaving the premises. /TISG